Dear Community,
Happy fall to all! We hope you are adjusting to the variety of new and creative school schedules and colder weather.
We are excited to share plans for a virtual ACTION meeting, slated for October 29th and 30th (save the date info below). Agenda details are still being worked out, but we will share more soon. There will be a general session as well as virtual breakouts, and we hope to cover topics such as DMD, heart failure, patient/caregiver education as well as other exciting topics. Since we will be hosting this meeting virtually, we will share information on how to register for specific breakouts and sessions. Some portions of the meeting will be open to all ACTION members, and some sessions will be reserved for specific committees and/or groups in order to facilitate virtual work in smaller, more focused groups.
We will not have an ACTION webinar this month due to the planning for the virtual meeting. Stay tuned for future webinars coming soon!
Regards,
Check it out!
ACTION Virtual Fall Meeting
Save the Date!
October 29th, 1–5pm ET (10–2pm PT)
October 30th, 10am–12pm ET (7–9am PT)
Agenda topics and other details coming soon!
Research Highlights
Check out our new webpage!
We will be periodically posting and sharing informative publications on both social media and the ACTION website. Our goal is to highlight work done by various ACTION members and sites. Topics will include: heart failure, VADs, strokes, pediatric cardiac research, transplants/waitlists and learning networks.
Upcoming Events
October 4–7, 2020
30th Annual International Symposium on Adult Congenital Heart Disease
(rescheduled from June 2020)
ACTION Happy Hour & Meeting (TBD)
Cincinnati, OH
More Info
October 29, 2020 (1–5pm ET)
October 30, 2020 (10am–12pm ET)
ACTION Fall Virtual Meeting
Virtual Event – Save the Date!
Agenda topics and other details coming soon!
November 11, 2020 (2–4:30pm ET)
Cardiac Networks United (CNU) Virtual Conference
Feeding and Nutrition in Pediatric & Congenital Cardiology
More Info | Register
New Centers
University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital
Iowa City, Iowa
- Jenny Chan, Admin
- Kaitlyn Dubishar
- Vernat Exil, MD
- Tara Hardin, RN
- Rabia Khan, MD
- Jen Maldonado, BS, RTR, CI, VI
- Yuki Nakamura, MD
- Trudy Pierick, NP
- Marco Ricci, MD
- Michelle Staron, PA-C
Children's Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
- Amy Baez
- Erik Edens, MD,PhD
- Beth Johnson
- Robroy Maciver, MD, MPH
- Holly Thompson
- Elizabeth Wagner, DNP, APRN, CPNP AC/PC
Quality Improvement Updates
COVID-19 Calls
Thank you to those who continue to share learnings and experiences on the COVID-19 calls with ACTION and PHTS! These calls are now monthly, with the next call on October 22, 2020.
Discharge Committee
The next Discharge Committee meeting will take place on October 7, 2020. Site specific data was sent out in Sept. to the project key contacts. Please review your data to ensure it is accurate. Contact Paige Krack if you did not receive your data or have questions. Please continue to test the Flight Plan and Journey Map, and enter data into REDCap on any patients who have been discharged or transferred to the floor.
Stroke QI Project
We believe that we can drive down strokes even further and are working on re-launching ABCs 2.0 in a few months. ABCs 2.0 will also include reducing bleeding events. Please continue to enter data into REDCap for your VAD patients in the meantime.
Telehealth Project
22 participating teams are testing an algorithm around defining which patients qualify for virtual visits and sharing education materials for care teams and patients/families. We are diving into measures so we can accurately capture the quality of telehealth visits. The next huddle is on October 14, 2020 . Please continue to enter your data into REDCap for the provider and patient surveys.
MOC
ACTION is now approved for ABP MOC Part 4 credit! The operations team is working on a process to help physicians in ACTION claim MOC credit, and we will be communicating the plans and process soon. Stay tuned!
Fellows in ACTION
The Fellows working group within ACTION had our first meeting for this academic year on September 29th, and we are looking forward to working and learning together! Please keep an eye out for:
Journal Club
We are looking forward to having a Journal Club via Zoom (yay technology!) every other month to discuss salient articles in our field. We plan to ask for ACTION member involvement so senior authors are able to join us and interact with the Fellows.
Cases in ACTION
Please look out for a HIPAA compliant case to be posted in Basecamp on the 15th of every month. There will be a few questions to follow related to how you would manage that particular patient at the time, which device you would choose if any, type of anticoagulation, etc. There will be a follow up to the case that will be posted 2 days later. Everyone (particularly senior members with all your wisdom and experience), please join in on the discussion and help expand our collective learning.
If you are a Fellow interested in submitting a case, please email Lakshmi.
Resources
Plan to create a library of landmark articles related to pediatric advanced heart failure, cardiomyopathy and mechanical support.
Social Media
Help us build our social media presence!
Twitter: @ACTIONFellows
Instagram: Fellows_in_ACTION
If you are a Fellow with a recent publication or presentations, we would love to highlight them! Please send the information to Lakshmi.
Fellows Stakeholder Group Co-leaders:
Lakshmi R. Gokanapudy Hahn, MD
Christopher Knoll, MD
Kathryn Restaino, MD
Faculty Co-Leaders:
Anna Joong, MD
Joseph A. Spinner, MD
